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Don't worry, they've already started walking back that flagship policy.

 

Labour has previously indicated that KiwiBuild will ramp up to 16,000 homes within their first term before building over 10,000 a year in order to reach 100,000 in a decade.  "In the first half of next year we'll have a number of sites where the first KiwiBuild homes will be built," Twyford said.  "I would hope we would be turning the key in the front door of KiwiBuild homes some time in the middle of next year, but that will be a real stretch."

 

They only need to deliver 16,000 homes between mid next (this) year and the end of their term.

 

That's only 20 a day.  Every single day.  And they can then quietly bury the policy at the 2020 election.

 

 

IIRC that post was day one. So, if we plan to do stuff, with no planning, on day one, thats a worry. Forget about planning, business partners, stock, infrastructure. TBH I was really surprised by that post. 

 

 

I'm not sure I grasp the point that you're trying to make?  (Are you implying that I am suggesting that Labour shouldn't plan to meet its targets?)

 

If it helps to provide context for my post.  I was trying to convey that:

 

a) Labour set a target, as a headline policy, to build 100,000 homes.  (an average of 10k per year)

 

b) Labour starts making a plan for this, and decides that the target will be 16k in the first 3 years  (14k short of the required run rate)  ...but will make that up by building at a faster rate later on.

 

c) Labour estimate that they will (at best) open the door to the first of the new houses mid 2018, leaving only 27months to build the remaining 15,999 houses.

 

d) This means that Labour will still need to deliver 20 homes per day for the second half of their first term, and I believe that the chances of that happening are almost nil.

 

My mistake, I latched onto a post made a while ago, a day or so after the election, that no houses had been built!

Yes its a lofty target. How many houses did National build? None I assume, as its not the Govts job to build houses. But someone needs to build them as the economy we have had and do have isn't interested. So if Labour build some houses, and it ramps up over time, no doubt it will fall short, but at least some are built that would not have been. Now, if the building industry is busy now, as was stated here, hopefully they will build more. The change to the LVR will help, that needs to really incentivise building over buying, it needs to be a no brainer to build. If we do need immigration thats fine, they made no rule to ban desired immigration, but clearly the immigration we have had hasnt helped. They just go to school, get PR and thats it, or lay fibre.